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lock

UK/lɒk/ US/lɑk/ common
verb (9) noun (6)

verb

1.

fasten with a lock

  • “lock the bike to the fence”
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2.

keep engaged

  • “engaged the gears”
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3.

become rigid or immoveable

  • “The therapist noticed that the patient”
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4.

hold in a locking position

  • “He locked his hands around her neck”
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5.

become engaged or intermeshed with one another

  • “They were locked in embrace”
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6.

hold fast (in a certain state)

  • “He was locked in a laughing fit”
7.

place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape

  • “The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend”
  • “She locked her jewels in the safe”
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8.
9.

build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels

noun

1.

a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed

2.
3.

a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun

4.

enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it

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5.

a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key

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6.

any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent''s body is twisted or pressured

Origin

From Middle English lok, from Old English loc, from Proto-West Germanic *lok, from Proto-Germanic *luką from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend; turn”).

Phrases

  • air lock Derived terms of lock (noun) without hyponyms
  • bike lock Derived terms of lock (noun) without hyponyms
  • box and lock
  • Bramah lock Derived terms of lock (noun) without hyponyms
  • button lock Derived terms of lock (noun) without hyponyms
  • cannon lock Derived terms of lock (noun) without hyponyms
  • clasp lock Derived terms of lock (noun) without hyponyms
  • combination lock Derived terms of lock (noun) without hyponyms
  • core locked
  • couch lock Derived terms of lock (noun) without hyponyms
  • land-locked salmon
  • lock and load

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